Young people's mental health absolutely at crisis point – MP

Young people's mental health issues have reached an “absolute crisis” point, a Leeds MP said as she revealed that the plight of struggling children has dominated her constituency surgeries for the last year.

- by James Connolly

Katie White, who was elected to represent Leeds North West last summer, said the scale of the problem among teens is “horrendous” and unlike anything she had expected.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post in an interview marking her first year in Parliament, Mrs White warned that urgent action is needed to improve access to support, cut waiting times and tackle the root causes of the crisis.